
The Situation
For anyone unaware, the 1.5.0 development builds have basic support for PSX games. However, there are still some components that are incomplete, or not working fully. Some games will fail to boot at all, others will have graphics corruption, and a small subset of games have problems with the pad and memory card controller. So, we have an unofficial list here of what games work and what doesn't.
Note! Only PS2 BIOSes from original fat PS2's will be able to run PSX games. Due to the IOP changes Sony made on the slims, they simply won't run PSX games in PCSX2 right now.
Possible DIY Fixes
If you have a PSX game that seems to have problems with booting, memory cards, controller input, whatever, here's some quick things to try before declaring it broken:
How You Can Help
Leave a reply! I'm making a list here of games both successful and failures. The end goal here is that if we can catalog which games have problems, we know which games to test with and can pinpoint what exactly is wrong and how to go about fixing it. For a reply, please include anything relevant to your game. Check out some existing replies for some examples.
Compatibility Levels:
# A
For anyone unaware, the 1.5.0 development builds have basic support for PSX games. However, there are still some components that are incomplete, or not working fully. Some games will fail to boot at all, others will have graphics corruption, and a small subset of games have problems with the pad and memory card controller. So, we have an unofficial list here of what games work and what doesn't.
Note! Only PS2 BIOSes from original fat PS2's will be able to run PSX games. Due to the IOP changes Sony made on the slims, they simply won't run PSX games in PCSX2 right now.
Possible DIY Fixes
If you have a PSX game that seems to have problems with booting, memory cards, controller input, whatever, here's some quick things to try before declaring it broken:
- IOP Interpreter often fixes boot failures among other problems.
- Use a Software renderer, instead of a Hardware renderer.
- If your PSX card isn't formatted yet, try doing this through the PS2 BIOS instead of having the game format it.
- Eject any PS2 memory cards.
- Lower the EE cyclerate. Lowering may help performance if a game is slow for some reason, and doesn't seem to ruin stability in many cases.
How You Can Help
Leave a reply! I'm making a list here of games both successful and failures. The end goal here is that if we can catalog which games have problems, we know which games to test with and can pinpoint what exactly is wrong and how to go about fixing it. For a reply, please include anything relevant to your game. Check out some existing replies for some examples.
Compatibility Levels:
- Playable: You can get from 'new game' to 'end credits' (regardless of speed).
- Ingame: You can get through menus, intro cutscenes / videos, and see ingame graphics, but either due to graphical bugs, crashes, un-resolved errors, you can't play through the entire game.
- Menus: You can get into the menus, be it past 3D / video intro, memcard checks etc, but when starting a new game, it will lock up, crash, enter a loop etc.
- Intro: The game will show 2D logos, or video, but will not get into menus. This could be one screen, or 20, but won't show much.
- Nothing: Exactly what it says, this game crashes before showing any graphics, making any sound etc
# A
- Ace Combat 2 [US][Ingame]
- Ace Combat 3 [US] [Ingame] - Needs IOP Interpreter
- Alien Resurrection [US] [Playable]
- Alien Trilogy [US] [Playable]
- C12: Final Resistance [US] [Playable] - missing music
- Castlevania Symphony of the Night [Broken]
- Crash Bandicoot [Ingame] - Audio problems
- Crash Bandicoot 2 [US] [Playable]
- Crash Bandicoot 3 [Playable]
- Final Fantasy VII [US] [Ingame]
- Final Fantasy VIII [US] [Ingame]
- Final Fantasy IX [US] [Broken]
- Frogger [US] Playable
- Klonoa - Door to Phantomile [US] [Playable]
- Knockout Kings [US] - Playable
- Medal of Honor [US] [Intro]
- Medievil [US] [Ingame]
- Metal Gear Solid [US] [Playable] - Needs IOP Interpreter
- Mortal Kombat 4 [Intro]
- Mortal Kombat: Sub-Zero [US] [Ingame]
- Namco Museum 3 [US] [Playable] - Needs IOP Interpreter
- Rascal [US] [Ingame] Hangs when loading level, in-game music out of sync
- Rayman 1 [US] [Broken]
- Rayman 2 [Playable]
- RC Helicopter [Playable]
- Resident Evil: Director's Cut [Ingame] - Needs IOP Interpreter
- Shockwave Assault [Ingame] - Needs IOP Interpreter
- Silent Hill [Intro]
- Sledstorm [US] [Playable]
- Small Soldiers [Playable]
- Soul Blade [US] [Menus]
- Spiderman [Playable]
- Spyro The Dragon [US] [Playable] - Needs IOP Interpreter
- Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage! [US] [Playable]
- Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage! [JP] [Intro]
- Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon [US] [Ingame] - Needs IOP Interpreter
- Star Wars Rebel Assault 2 [US] [Menus]
- Suikoden [Playable]
- Syphon Filter [US] [Broken]
- Tekken 2 [Broken]
- Titan War [Intro]
- Tomb Raider [US] [Ingame]
- Tomb Raider 4 [Playable]
- Tomb Raider 5 [Playable]
- Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 [Ingame]
- Toy Story 2 [Ingame] - Needs IOP Interpreter
- Twisted Metal 2 [Playable]
- Wipeout [US] [Ingame]
- Wipeout XL [US] [Ingame]
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Oh yeah Red Pandas are cool too.
Mobo: ASUS Prime Z370-A
CPU: Intel i7-8700K (3.7 GHz)
RAM: G.Skill TridentZ, 2x8 GB DDR4 (3000 MHz)
GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti FTW2 (8 GB)
OS: Windows 10 Pro (64 bit)
Oh yeah Red Pandas are cool too.